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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Craigslist comes up
How To Design Better AI Apps · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:47 Tom Blomfield Kind of like Craigslist, right?
DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession, Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New Market · Y Combinator
Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:48 Michael Seibel The first is that VRBO and Craigslist did not facilitate payments.
Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:58 Gustaf Alströmer Now, at the time, the only comparison to, ah, what a site like this would look like would be Craigslist. 2 times in the scene
Starting a Startup After Business School - Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis of AptDeco · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:22 Kalam Dennis So basically we kind of took Craigslist and just, you know,
- ▶ 0:42 unnamed speaker Because I've seen all kinds of blog posts about like, you know, the fragmentation of Craigslist, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:22 Reham Fagiri I think for us, like, our experience, like, we were so frustrated with what happened to us when we were trying to sell our furniture on Craigslist, um, and then we started kind of, really frankly, obsessing over, like, this just is really,…
- ▶ 7:13 Reham Fagiri So, you know, when we had this really bad experience, um, trying to sell our furniture on Craigslist, I was, I moved back to New York, and I had my truck, and Colm borrowed my truck for that one day, listed it on, listed back his listing… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:21 Reham Fagiri And so, but from the beginning, we, you know, we were essentially trying to solve the Craigslist issue, which is
Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- ▶ 58:03 Brian Donohue And so if you're Airbnb, your growth hack is posting to Craigslist.
Suhail Doshi - How to Measure Your Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:11 Suhail Doshi Like a good example of this is like Craigslist is crazy. 2 times in the scene
A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:19 Ooshma Garg So we started, after I ate that food, I, um, wanted to replicate my dad in the Bay Area, and I posted on Craigslist and looked for moms or dads that would cook for me.
- ▶ 45:27 Ooshma Garg When I started Gobble, I looked for a co-founder, and I spent, I, I kind of just started it, like, I found chefs on Craigslist, and I was delivering food in my car, but I was dating co-founders, um, that are now other YC founders at the…
Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 50:47 Ryan Petersen I hired guys on Craigslist to make phone booths for me. 2 times in the scene
Helping Landlords Find Tenants – Sean Mitchell of Rezi · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:49 unnamed speaker For example, you know, like all the apartments or a majority of the apartments that I looked for when I was living in New York and out here actually just Craigslist stuff, right?
- ▶ 10:50 Sean Mitchell Where we essentially would go to Craigslist, Zillow, and any other site, you know, pick a hundred, uh, units, and we just call people.
Don't Start a Blog, Start a Cult - Mr. Money Mustache · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:00 Mr. Money Mustache I would go on to the equivalent of Craigslist back then, the Usenet groups. 2 times in the scene
The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:18 Tikhon Bernstam Um, and so, similarly, like, Scribd actually was actually the merger of me, Tripp, and Jared, like, during YC, uh, they were working on some other project, um, uh, and, like, it was like a Craigslist for colleges. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:55 Tikhon Bernstam We already have Craigslist, but often these, these experiences are much better when they're custom tailored. 2 times in the scene
The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO: Ed McManus · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:17 Ed McManus Both were marketplaces for iPhone, so similar to Craigslist for iPhone.
Drew Houston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:53 Drew Houston Um, we actually brought people in off of Craigslist, and watched them install the product, and we had like a, um, and we, we showed the video in real time to the, to all the, our whole team in the other room, where we had the person and a…
Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis at Startup School SV 2016 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:15 Kalam Dennis And we say, well, we email people on Craigslist, and we say, hey, you should list on Apartment Deco, because we take care of delivery. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:19 Reham Fagiri And so we scrambled, posted an ad on Craigslist,